Tag Archive | "Exposition – Description"

Pink Horse

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Kate Bernheimer, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $104.50.] A long time ago, I was very poor and often traded my body for cigarettes, Chelada, or food (in order of preference). I had two children — both daughters — and together we lived in a motel [...]

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Flip-Flop Frame

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Merrill Markoe, has ended. Original price: 59 cents. Final price: $21.80.] Any image that has been carefully placed in an antique gold frame embossed with angels and laurel wreathes becomes transformed in to something elevated and celestial. “All you need to know about this old person/building/animal/plate of [...]

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Dilbert Stress Toy

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Betsey Swardlick, has ended. Original price: 25 cents. Final price: $26. This story is the third in a three-part series produced in collaboration with The Center for Cartoon Studies. ]

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Clown Figurine

Friday, October 9, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nick Asbury, has ended. Original price: $2. Final price: $11.61. ] Kenny is a funny clown Kenny is a funny clown. He sees the whole world upside-down. Kenny is my best friend. The day before Kenny was born, he said “I bet I can live life standing on me ’ead!” Kenny is from [...]

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Duck Vase

Friday, September 25, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Matthew Klam, has ended. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $15.75. ] I acquired this object at a flea market in the parking lot of a bilingual high school. Its little hands are smooth flippers. I believe it to be quite valuable, possibly antique, based on dates of [...]

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Grain Thing

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Joanne McNeil, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $20.50.] Among the many misconceptions that prevail about my great-grandfather, Hartford Townes Hastings, the most infuriating is the idea that he was a disinterested playboy benefactor, squandering the family fortune on “women and dreams,” as the New York [...]

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Rhino Figurine

Monday, August 10, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nathaniel Rich, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $57.] Do you ever struggle to remember insignificant facts? Facts so small and irrelevant to the natural course of your life that you wonder how you ever learned them in the first place? And yet your inability to [...]

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Foppish Figurine

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Rob Baedeker, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $17.82.] Baron Von Blauheimer “Muscle Dove” Statuette This is a porcelain statuette of the Baron Von Blaueheimer holding a “peace dove” on his cocked fist. The statuette dates from the 1980’s, but it is modeled after a real historical [...]

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Piggy Bank

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Matthew De Abaitua, has closed. Original price: $1.99. Final price: $15.50] My Daddy shouts at me when I go near the piggy bank, and he screams when I turn it upside down. So l leave the piggy bank alone and tell my baby brother and sister to [...]

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Fred Flintstone Pez Dispenser

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Claire Zulkey, has ended. Original price: 50 cents. Final price: $5.50.] Apparently, people collect these things. I’m not sure I understand why. Is it for the candy? I find that hard to believe. There are so many better candies than Pez that it’s not even funny. Me, I’d rather eat a sugar [...]

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Mule figurine

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Matthew Sharpe, has ended. Original price: $1. Final price: $14.50.] This is the statue of the mule that I have sculpted by my hands, but if you are the serious person about the hand-sculpted statues, also serious when you are knowing how to feel the deep meaning [...]

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JFK Bust

Monday, July 6, 2009

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[Bidding on this Significant Object, with story by Annie Nocenti, has ended. Original price: $2.99. Final price: $26.] I’m long off the vine. Eighty, truth be told. I refuse to be one of those biddies that dies with clutter. Found drooling in a wing-back, her thousand-strong frog collection eyeballing her. My clutter is for sale. I [...]

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